Matt Rogers built his career on being unapologetically himself, and that same energy is exactly what fills theaters night after night. Whether you know him from his podcast, his TV work, or clips that keep circulating online, one thing is clear: getting into the room where he performs has become ...

Stand-up comedy has no shortage of loud personalities chasing viral clips, but Kathleen Madigan built a three-decade career doing the opposite. She tells stories. She takes her time. She trusts a room full of strangers to sit still for a punchline that's still forty seconds away. That patience, ...

Ventriloquism has an image problem. For most of the twentieth century, it lived in the same drawer as balloon animals and card tricks: a novelty act, good for a county fair, rarely good for an arena tour. Jeff Dunham spent the last two decades quietly demolishing that assumption, and the numbers ...

Stand-up comedy has had a strange few decades. Arenas got bigger, specials got shorter, and a whole generation of comedians started building careers on fifteen-second clips instead of fifteen-minute bits. Through all of it, one performer has kept doing things almost exactly the way he always has: ...

Gabriel Iglesias doesn't do quiet nights. When "Fluffy" walks on stage, arenas that normally host hockey games and basketball playoffs turn into two hours of sound effects, storytelling, and the kind of laughter that makes your stomach hurt the next morning. If you're trying to lock down Gabriel ...

A Comedian Whose Ticket Demand Outran His Room Sizes There's a particular kind of ticket panic that happens when a comedian's clips travel faster than his tour routing does. That's the situation surrounding Lucas Zelnick tickets right now. A New York-raised stand-up who spent years sharpening a ...

Comedy tours don't usually behave like this. Matt Rife's Stay Golden World Tour has been selling out arenas that stand-up comedians rarely even attempt, breaking single-night sales records at venues built for hockey teams and rock bands, and doing it with a 360-degree stage that puts the comedian ...

Brett Goldstein spent three seasons making millions of people cry over a fictional footballer named Roy Kent, and now he's asking those same people to buy a ticket, sit in a dark theater, and listen to him talk about his actual life. That's the trade at the heart of his new stand-up run, Sex, Death ...